Sustainability & Conservation
Preserving Frankincense Forests, Protecting Heritage, and Empowering Communities
Addressing urgent threats to Somalia’s resin-yielding ecosystems through sustainable harvesting, forest restoration, and climate resilience.
Sustainability & Conservation
- Overharvesting and abandonment of traditional tapping practices
- Destructive harvesting of immature trees and over-stripping
- Increased vulnerability to pests (wood-boring beetles) and extreme weather
- 75% drop in resin yields in some villages, threatening community livelihoods
- Unsustainable myrrh and Commiphora harvesting leading to critical endangerment
- Trained 120+ harvesters in regenerative harvesting practices
- Sustainable management of 1,000+ hectares of frankincense forest
- Planted 15,000+ trees for ecosystem restoration
- Piloted a digital traceability and organic certification system
- Launched AI-based frankincense tree monitoring systems
- Climate-smart reforestation and cooperative-led forest protection campaigns
- Protecting biodiversity and ancient cultural heritage
- Ensuring sustainable livelihoods for 300+ cooperatives and their families
- Safeguarding Somalia’s place in the global ethical frankincense trade
- Building climate resilience for future generations
